Why do video game console discs now require installation, when we could just put them in and play instantly before? Why did PC discs always require installation

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Lol, cute… in the olden days we didn’t have Internet. Or at least the GAME makers couldn’t assume the game buyer had internet, or internet fast enough to download a 700 mb game. So they had to distribute it on Floppies or CDs. Now everybody is assumed to have fast internet, and can just install from the internet with a tiny installer app. Now games are massive… many gigabytes, so they wouldn’t even fit on an HD DVD, so they have to come from the internet and stored on huge SSDs or Hard Drives in your machine, or streamed in real time from the internet.